Meteors+-+LK

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Meteors and Meteorites
Astronomy & Space: From the Big Bang to the Big Crunch, August 30, 2007 

**Topic: Research Focus**
 * What is your topic? meteors**
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**Notes** ==== Include notes, statistics and facts that you will use to write your final paper. You may want to label sections of your notes to help you be more organized as you write. As you take notes from a source, you should list the source citation in the **Works Cited** section above. ====

A meteor is particle of space debris from the size of a piece of sand to a boulder sized chunk. Meteorites are larger chunks of rock, metal, or both that break off rom an astroid or a comet and come crashing through earths atmosphere, right down to the ground. Meteors --so-called shooting stars--are generated when debris enters and burns up in Earth's atmosphere. The Taurids are attributed to debris left behind by Encke's comet, or perhaps by a much larger comet that disintegrated, leaving behind Encke and a lot of rubble. a dozen meteors may appear per hour. As meteors go, they will be unusually slow, and consequently often yellowish-orange. Their name comes from the way they seem to radiate from the constellation Taurus, the Bull.